Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)
A conservation group is going to court to force the federal government to consider adding the Pacific walrus to the list of threatened species.
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne on Wednesday for failing to act on a petition seeking protection for walruses under the Endangered Species Act.
Walruses are threatened by global warming that melts Arctic sea ice, according to the group, one of the parties that successfully petitioned to list polar bears as threatened. The group also has filed petitions to protect Arctic seals....
December 10, 2008
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Africa-Europe Satellite Image
December 9, 2008
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Indian Ocean Satellite - Heat transfer noted over Thialand, Indonesia and Australia leading into Antarctica west of Austrialia.
December 10, 2008
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West Pacific Satellite. Heat transfer across Indonesia and into Antarctica on the right of image.
Storm One and Storm Two; Snow and Severe Weather (click here)
SNOW IN THE GREAT LAKES AND SOUTHERN PLAINS TODAY... NEXT STORM WILL BRING SNOW INTO THE MID-ATLANTIC.
Long-range video was reposted...
I am going to try to break this complex weather situation down...
1. The severe weather across Louisiana into Mississippi could be nasty today. Storms have already shown signs of rotation, and EHI values are running about 1 across that area. A few tornadoes, wind damage and hail be the primary impact through early tonight. I think the severe weather will calm down later tonight and Wednesday but will resume Thursday with a second storm. I am concerned for a rash of wind damage and even some tornadoes across the Southeast Thursday as shown on the map below....
2 tornadoes confirmed in overnight storms in North Texas (click here)
Posted on Tue, Dec. 09, 2008
The National Weather Service is confirming what some North Texans feared. Storms that moved through the region Monday night and damaged or destroyed more than 50 homes included two probable tornadoes, although aerial surveys showed much of the damage was from straight-line winds.
While some residents of Grayson County -- the hardest hit area -- worked to clean up the damage, others in North Texas found themselves without power as wind-whipped flurries of sleet and snow moved through the Dallas-Fort Worth area late today....
Severe storms destroy houses in North Texas (click here)
Associated Press
Dec. 9, 2008, 7:09AM
DENISON — One person suffered minor injuries in storms that damaged or destroyed more than 20 homes and left thousands of people without electricity today.
Denison Police Lt. Billy Shaw told The Associated Press that "it did appear to be a tornado, by looking at the damage."
National Weather Service officials are expected to review the damage to confirm whether the system, which rolled through North Texas on Monday night, was a tornado.
Shaw says about 5,000 homes and businesses were without electricity early today in the Denison area. He estimates two or three homes were destroyed.
"Numerous roofs are gone," according to Shaw.
Grayson County Sheriff's Office dispatcher Dana Waugh (wah) says one person from the Collinsville area was transported to a hospital with minor injuries Monday night. Waugh had no further information.
Sherman Fire Department Chief Jeff Jones says at least 2,000 people in Sherman and northern Grayson County were without electricity. At least 20 homes were damaged.
The American Red Cross has set up a shelter at the Collinsville Fire Station.
December 10, 2008
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UNISYS North and West Hemisphere Enhanced Infrared Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Heat transfer arriving directly over Iceland.
December 10, 2008
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UNISYS Enhanced Infrared GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
There is a huge heat transfer system arriving over the Arctic Ocean as I write this and there is a line of severe storms over the east coast of the USA and the upper Midwest.
December 10, 2008
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UNISYS Enhanced Infrared GOES West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
The storm in the Pacific developed in the last 12 hours. That was all. Only twelve hours.
December 10, 2008
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Pacific Global Satellite - There are 'heat transfers' noted in 'yellow clouds into Antarctica. There is currently a severe storm in the Pacific.
December 10, 2008
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Antarctica.
There is no 'frigid air' over Antarctica today !
Everyone proud of themselves ?
December 9, 2008
0600 PM UTC
Temperature Satellite Image (click here for 24 hour loop - there are only two views, at 6PM and 12 AM)
Vostok, Antarctica
Lat/Lon: 78.4° S 106.9° E
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
Local Time: 10:15 AM VOST (GMT +06)
Temperature :: -32 °F / -35 °C
Conditions :: Clear
Humidity :: 39%
Dew Point :: -42 °F / -41 °C
Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h / from the WSW
Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Possession Island, Antarctica
Lat/Lon: 71.9° S 171.1° E
Elevation :: 98 ft / 30 m
Local Time: 4:21 AM GMT (GMT +00)
Temperature :: 43 °F / 6 °C
Pressure :: 28.65 in / 970 hPa
Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h / from the North
Moscow temperature hits record for December (click here)
14:33
06/ 12/ 2008
MOSCOW, December 06 (RIA Novosti) - The temperature in Moscow hit 9.4 degrees Celsius (48.92 degrees Fahrenheit) in the early hours of Saturday, a record high for December, a meteorological website said.
The hmn.ru site said: "A new record was set, for December 6 and for the whole month. And strange as it may seem, the record was broken at nighttime."
"Until now, the highest temperature of the first winter month was +9.2 degrees, reached on December 15, 2006. The previous record for December 6 has been exceeded by 1.7 degrees, it was set in 1898 with a temperature of 7.7 degrees."
"The unusually warm weather in Central Russia has been brought by south and southwest winds from southern Europe."
The temperature in the capital is beginning to rise, and may hit 10 degrees, the report said.
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
Lat/Lon :: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Local Time: 7:02 PM AKST on December 09, 2008 (GMT -09)
Temperature :: 39 °F / 4 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Windchill :: 30 °F / -1 °C
Humidity :: 87%
Dew Point :: 36 °F / 2 °C
Wind :: 16 mph / 26 km/h / 7.2 m/s from the SE
Pressure :: 29.50 in / 999 hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 9.0 miles / 14.5 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds :: Mostly Cloudy 1900 ft / 579 m
Overcast 2400 ft / 731 m
(Above Ground Level)
New Cracks in the Wilkins Ice Shelf (click here)
Posted December 4, 2008
Sulfur Dioxide from Noril'sk, Russia (click here)
Posted December 5, 2008
SNOW IN THE GREAT LAKES AND SOUTHERN PLAINS TODAY... NEXT STORM WILL BRING SNOW INTO THE MID-ATLANTIC.
Long-range video was reposted...
I am going to try to break this complex weather situation down...
1. The severe weather across Louisiana into Mississippi could be nasty today. Storms have already shown signs of rotation, and EHI values are running about 1 across that area. A few tornadoes, wind damage and hail be the primary impact through early tonight. I think the severe weather will calm down later tonight and Wednesday but will resume Thursday with a second storm. I am concerned for a rash of wind damage and even some tornadoes across the Southeast Thursday as shown on the map below....
2 tornadoes confirmed in overnight storms in North Texas (click here)
Posted on Tue, Dec. 09, 2008
The National Weather Service is confirming what some North Texans feared. Storms that moved through the region Monday night and damaged or destroyed more than 50 homes included two probable tornadoes, although aerial surveys showed much of the damage was from straight-line winds.
While some residents of Grayson County -- the hardest hit area -- worked to clean up the damage, others in North Texas found themselves without power as wind-whipped flurries of sleet and snow moved through the Dallas-Fort Worth area late today....
Severe storms destroy houses in North Texas (click here)
Associated Press
Dec. 9, 2008, 7:09AM
DENISON — One person suffered minor injuries in storms that damaged or destroyed more than 20 homes and left thousands of people without electricity today.
Denison Police Lt. Billy Shaw told The Associated Press that "it did appear to be a tornado, by looking at the damage."
National Weather Service officials are expected to review the damage to confirm whether the system, which rolled through North Texas on Monday night, was a tornado.
Shaw says about 5,000 homes and businesses were without electricity early today in the Denison area. He estimates two or three homes were destroyed.
"Numerous roofs are gone," according to Shaw.
Grayson County Sheriff's Office dispatcher Dana Waugh (wah) says one person from the Collinsville area was transported to a hospital with minor injuries Monday night. Waugh had no further information.
Sherman Fire Department Chief Jeff Jones says at least 2,000 people in Sherman and northern Grayson County were without electricity. At least 20 homes were damaged.
The American Red Cross has set up a shelter at the Collinsville Fire Station.
December 10, 2008
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UNISYS North and West Hemisphere Enhanced Infrared Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
Heat transfer arriving directly over Iceland.
December 10, 2008
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UNISYS Enhanced Infrared GOES East Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
There is a huge heat transfer system arriving over the Arctic Ocean as I write this and there is a line of severe storms over the east coast of the USA and the upper Midwest.
December 10, 2008
0330z
UNISYS Enhanced Infrared GOES West Satellite (click here for 12 hour loop)
The storm in the Pacific developed in the last 12 hours. That was all. Only twelve hours.
December 10, 2008
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Pacific Global Satellite - There are 'heat transfers' noted in 'yellow clouds into Antarctica. There is currently a severe storm in the Pacific.
December 10, 2008
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Antarctica.
There is no 'frigid air' over Antarctica today !
Everyone proud of themselves ?
December 9, 2008
0600 PM UTC
Temperature Satellite Image (click here for 24 hour loop - there are only two views, at 6PM and 12 AM)
Vostok, Antarctica
Lat/Lon: 78.4° S 106.9° E
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3420 m
Local Time: 10:15 AM VOST (GMT +06)
Temperature :: -32 °F / -35 °C
Conditions :: Clear
Humidity :: 39%
Dew Point :: -42 °F / -41 °C
Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h / from the WSW
Pressure :: in / hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Possession Island, Antarctica
Lat/Lon: 71.9° S 171.1° E
Elevation :: 98 ft / 30 m
Local Time: 4:21 AM GMT (GMT +00)
Temperature :: 43 °F / 6 °C
Pressure :: 28.65 in / 970 hPa
Wind :: 5 mph / 7 km/h / from the North
Moscow temperature hits record for December (click here)
14:33
06/ 12/ 2008
MOSCOW, December 06 (RIA Novosti) - The temperature in Moscow hit 9.4 degrees Celsius (48.92 degrees Fahrenheit) in the early hours of Saturday, a record high for December, a meteorological website said.
The hmn.ru site said: "A new record was set, for December 6 and for the whole month. And strange as it may seem, the record was broken at nighttime."
"Until now, the highest temperature of the first winter month was +9.2 degrees, reached on December 15, 2006. The previous record for December 6 has been exceeded by 1.7 degrees, it was set in 1898 with a temperature of 7.7 degrees."
"The unusually warm weather in Central Russia has been brought by south and southwest winds from southern Europe."
The temperature in the capital is beginning to rise, and may hit 10 degrees, the report said.
The weather at Glacier Bay National Park (Crystal Wind Chime) is:
Lat/Lon :: 58.8° N 137.0° W
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
Local Time: 7:02 PM AKST on December 09, 2008 (GMT -09)
Temperature :: 39 °F / 4 °C
Conditions :: Overcast
Windchill :: 30 °F / -1 °C
Humidity :: 87%
Dew Point :: 36 °F / 2 °C
Wind :: 16 mph / 26 km/h / 7.2 m/s from the SE
Pressure :: 29.50 in / 999 hPa (Falling)
Visibility :: 9.0 miles / 14.5 kilometers
UV :: 0 out of 16
Clouds :: Mostly Cloudy 1900 ft / 579 m
Overcast 2400 ft / 731 m
(Above Ground Level)
New Cracks in the Wilkins Ice Shelf (click here)
Posted December 4, 2008
Sulfur Dioxide from Noril'sk, Russia (click here)
Posted December 5, 2008
